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Hi everyone,

I'm building a terminal music player in Rust using Ratatui + Crossterm, and I'm having trouble rendering Tamil lyrics correctly.

As shown in the screenshot, Tamil combining characters such as ெ, ு, ் are appearing detached instead of being properly shaped and positioned.

Environment

• Rust
• Ratatui 0.29
• Crossterm 0.28
• Linux
• GNOME Terminal (VTE) / WezTerm
• Noto Sans Tamil

I've already verified that:

• The strings are valid UTF-8.
• Unicode grapheme segmentation works correctly.
• Display-width calculations are correct.
• A minimal Ratatui Paragraph has the same issue.
• Even println!("கென்னை விடு") shows the same problem in GNOME Terminal.

So I'm wondering:

Is proper OpenType/HarfBuzz shaping for Tamil possible inside a normal terminal grid?

If yes, what terminal/configuration/library should I use?

If terminal cells fundamentally cannot handle complex-script shaping, what is the recommended approach for a TUI? Would something like Kitty/Sixel + HarfBuzz/cosmic-text be appropriate?

Any advice from people familiar with Unicode shaping, HarfBuzz, VTE, or Rust TUI rendering would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hey everyone! I’ve been building YATA (Yet Another To-do App), an Android task manager for people who want powerful organization without making a cloud account the center of the experience (Vibe Coded 100%. How ever no AI Features will be added in the app)

The core app works locally and uses Material 3 with dynamic wallpaper colors. Some of its features include:

• Natural-language task capture for dates, reminders, recurrence, priority, projects, tags, and assignees
• Projects, lists, tags, people, start dates, recurring tasks, subtasks, notes, and comments
• Home-screen widgets and quick-add options
• Tasker integration
• PDF, image, calendar, and Markdown exports
• Optional encrypted backups to SFTP, FTP/FTPS, Google Drive, or local device storage
• Configurable retention, archive, trash, and undo behavior
• Material You theming, including dynamically tinted transparent profile icons

The goal is to combine the flexibility of larger productivity tools with an Android-native interface that still feels quick for everyday task capture.

NOTE 1: There are no cloud sync features or collaboration feature. Whatever you do in your app is for your eyes only. Self-Hosted backup can be enabled which will create backups only.

NOTE 2: Still under beta. So there will be bugs.

The current release is YATA 0.90.1 beta. It’s still evolving, so I’d especially appreciate feedback about usability, missing workflows, confusing screens, or features that feel unnecessarily complicated.

Source code and the signed beta APK are available here:

GitHub — YATA 0.90.1 beta

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I just started to learning stuff ,

it fell little different from termux

I've been using caelestia-shell for most of my ricing journey, but recently I came across a fork that completely elevated my setup.

The biggest gamechanger? It finally lets you customize the taskbar. That was honestly the only thing missing from the original shell for me, and with this added flexibility, I am completely satisfied with my layout.

A few other huge benefits:

Animated Wallpapers: It natively lets you set a GIF or video as your wallpaper (complete with options for CUDA, software, or hardware decoding), which is a massive feature currently lacking in the main branch.

Always Current: Unlike a lot of custom forks that get abandoned, this one actively updates alongside the main repository, so you never miss out on upstream bug fixes or features.

If you've been wanting taskbar customization and animated wallpapers without sacrificing the stability of the main branch, definitely check it out.

Link to the fork: dim-caelestia-shell

Windows: What is my purpose?

User: You are a bootloader to install Linux.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

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The ram is mislabeled as DDR3L. But it is actually DDR3. No issues.

Price: 500

The first one was running mint dualboot with windows. Now both are on debian

Especially compared to how it sounds on Windows.

Anyone else using an external audio interface with PipeWire and experiencing something similar? Is there any PipeWire setting I should check?